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> free, automated software for managing the system and performing tasks such as backups Did you come across Amanda[1] or bacula + bacularis[2]? 1: http://www.
by trynewideas 4y ago
> free, automated software for managing the system and performing tasks such as backups
Did you come across Amanda[1] or bacula + bacularis[2]?
1: http://www.amanda.org/ http://www.amanda.org/
2: https://bacularis.app/doc/index.html https://bacularis.app/doc/index.html
- adepressedthrow 4y agoI hadn't seen Amanda before. Bacularis looks like it might help with the complexity of setting up Backula. I might try that out. It's hard to get the motivation to mess with these tools that have relatively little documentation/examples and are purely config file based.
- trynewideas 4y agoThat's fair. I used to use Ark, which was mostly a proprietary front-end for bacula, and that exposed me to the kind of futility of a "user-friendly" tape interface. Every tape operation from picking to winding to r/w takes so much time, and has so many subtle ways that it can fail, that it defies attempts at friendly user interfaces.
- herewulf 4y agoBacula is great software, but yes, fiddly to set up and SCSI tape drives / changers aren't really straightforward either. It will serve you well once all is set up though. I worked for a company using Bacula quite successfully for many years with a 24 tape system. It was much better than the proprietary software the system came with.
- latchkey 4y agoWow, amanda. That brings back memories of using that newly released software (~2000) for swapping tapes daily on a drive hooked up to a sparc 5.